We’ve joined the major leagues.
We’re thrilled to announce that Fast Company has named Resultant a 2025 Most Innovative Company. We join the most forward-thinking organizations in the world, appearing alongside Waymo, Nvidia, Duolingo, and more.
This is the biggest award we’ve won. Ever.
But what does it really take to earn this kind of recognition?
Behind the accolade is a story—of bold thinking, innovative problem-solving, and solutions that are improving human lives.
Read on for ours.
Innovation Through Empathy: People-Centered Problem-Solving
Innovation isn’t about technology. It’s about creatively solving problems for real people. And that process starts with empathy.
By empathizing with human needs and preferences, our intrepid experts prioritize understanding the nuanced experiences of those our solutions serve.
This mindset pushes us beyond obvious first solutions toward transformative ones—not just to solve client problems, but to promote human thriving. After all, technology is useless if it doesn’t actually help people.
And since driving meaningful outcomes is a core value and differentiator, we’ve discovered a powerful truth: combining a human-centered perspective with data unlocks insights that have the potential to improve millions of lives.
Our 2025 Innovations: Solving Societal Problems with Data
Government agencies collect vast amounts of data — data that could hold the answers to society’s most pressing questions. But most struggle to turn “insight” into “action.” Our approach caught Fast Company’s attention.
Every organization—from small nonprofits to large enterprises—is striving to get their hands on actionable data more quickly. But government agencies in particular face unique obstacles to deploying analytics in near-real-time. Obstacles that Resultant is breaking down.
We were selected for FastCo’s 2025 Most Innovative list for three empathetic, custom-built solutions that government agencies are using to drive efficacy, efficiency, and transparency. These solutions make data available to those who need it in digestible and, more importantly, actionable formats. They specifically target critical issues facing early childhood and education: child care shortages, chronic absenteeism, and pandemic learning loss.
1. Child Care Connect (developed in partnership with Iowa HHS and Iowa State University)
Likened to an “OpenTable for child care,” C3 allows parents to search for child care providers along day-to-day driving routes and view openings based on child age. C3 diverges from existing solutions because it seamlessly integrates with local provider CCMSs. In most states, child care providers report vacancies to the state 1-2 times per year, rendering the information outdated and irrelevant upon delivery. In contrast, C3 refreshes daily, allowing families to find up-to-date openings and community leaders to understand child care supply and demand in their area.
2. Indiana’s Attendance Insights Dashboard (developed in partnership Indiana Department of Education)
Many attendance dashboards only show basic statistics, like the number of chronically absent students, which educators often already know. What sets IDOE’s Attendance Insights dashboard apart is its near real-time (updated weekly) reflection of the days and weeks students did not attend school, and as how those compare to previous years. Applying advanced analytics to identify attendance patterns and disaggregate data allows users to compare current data to historical, longitudinal data. Educators can glean actionable insights, implement changes, and track data over time to see if interventions made an impact, making the dashboard a more strategic tool for improving attendance rates and preventing chronic absenteeism.
3. Early Warning Indicator System (Developed in partnership Indiana Department of Education)
Resultant developed Indiana’s Early Warning Indicator System (EWIS) to help identify students at risk of not graduating on time and empower educators to intervene with targeted support. What sets EWIS apart from other early warning indicators is the state-specific, predictive data model Resultant developed that leverages historical data from Indiana students who either did or did not graduate on time. It then compares every current student in grades 6 through 12 to those historical student patterns, essentially determining if a given student’s educational journey aligns with a student who did or did not graduate, and assigns a corresponding risk score. Although historical data is used to train Indiana’s proprietary risk identification model, Resultant’s solution is industry-leading in that it utilizes current, real-time data through a transactional interaction with Ed-Fi to continuously update student risk scores.
Allow us to (Re)Introduce Ourselves
With more than 450 team members across the US, we are a passionate team of engineers, mathematicians, data analysts, project managers, and business consultants.
On the public sector side, we specialize in helping education; health and human services; workforce; and criminal justice drive efficacy, efficiency, and transparency. But our education practice in particular has recently experienced a significant season of growth. In 2019, education work represented a small portion of our portfolio—about $3.5 million in revenue. In 2021, education practice grew to generate $18 million and $24 million in 2023. Further, between 2023 and 2024 alone, the practice grew sales from net new clients by 318%. We now serve organizations across the entire education continuum: early childhood through post-secondary.
Our work in the private sector touches health care, private equity, professional services, and transportation. Our data warehousing and infrastructure work has helped a children’s clothing line build better customer profiles with data and a professional baseball team overhaul their fan experience.
We even recently helped a global car rental agency reduce manual labor by 99% and save an estimated $60M annually with our AI-powered fleet management system.
Accolades aside, everything we do is in service of our mission: to help our coworkers, clients, and communities thrive. Our name symbolizes our commitment to empathy and collaboration—not just in building the best technical solutions, but also deeply listening and understanding the human needs at the heart of our client’s challenges.
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